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Coastal Fire Centre Information Section Coastal Fire Centre | BC Wildfire Service Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Phone: 250 951-4209 Report Wildfires: 1 800 663-5555 or *5555

Acknowledging the traditional unceded territory of the K’omoks First Nation , Snaw’Naw’As First Nation (Nanoose) and Qualicum First Nation the traditional keepers of this land.

  

Please find attached an Information Bulletin from the Coastal Fire Centre regarding the lifting of all open burning prohibitions. The release provides details, along with a link to the map of the Coastal Fire Centre jurisdictional area. Please see the entire text of the attached message below this email.

 

For Immediate Release September 15, 2021

Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development BC Wildfire Service

 

Coastal Fire Centre to rescind open burning prohibitions

 

PARKSVILLE – Effective at 12:00 (noon) Pacific Standard Time, Thursday September 16, 2021, all open fires will again be permitted throughout the Coastal Fire Centre’s jurisdiction. This rescind is the result of recent rainfall that has reduced the wildfire risk in the region, along with the return of seasonal temperatures. Please see the attached map: http://ow.ly/NwAe30rU3eI.

 

For more information on what to expect as we head into the fall season, find the latest seasonal outlook here: http://ow.ly/8edq50G80k7.

 

The public is asked to undertake open burning responsibly and to follow guidance to ensure their burning is conducted in a safe manner.

 

This rescind means that campfires, Category 2 and 3 open fires, and Resource Management Burning will be permitted everywhere in the Coastal Fire Centre’s jurisdictional area.

 

Local governments may still have their own burning restrictions in place and people intending to light a fire should always check with local authorities before lighting any fire of any size.

 

The following activities are no longer restricted:

• the use of burning barrels and burning cages;
• the use of air curtain burners;
• the use of binary exploding targets;
• the use of sky lanterns;
• the use of fireworks, including firecrackers.

 

Anyone lighting a Category 3 open fire must first obtain a burn registration number by calling    1 888 797-1717. A Category 3 open fire is a fire that burns material more than two metres high or three metres wide, stubble or grass of more than 2,000 square metres, or more than two piles of any size. A poster explaining the different categories of open burning is available online: http://ow.ly/znny309kJv5

 

Anyone who lights a fire must comply with B.C.’s air quality control legislation. The BC Wildfire

Service urges people to take the following precautions with any permitted outdoor burning:

• Ensure that enough people, water and tools are on hand to control the fire and stop it from escaping.
• Do not burn in windy conditions. The weather can change quickly, and the wind may carry embers to other combustible material and start new fires.
• Create a fireguard around the planned fire site by clearing away twigs, grass, leaves and other combustible material.

• Never leave a fire unattended.
• Make sure that the fire is fully extinguished, and the ashes are cold to the touch before leaving the area for any length of time.

 

The Coastal Fire Centre covers all of the area west of the height of land on the Coast Mountain

Range from the U.S. – Canada border at Manning Park, including Tweedsmuir South Provincial

Park in the north, the Sunshine Coast, the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands

and Haida Gwaii.

 

To report a wildfire, unattended campfire or open burning violation, call 1 800 663-5555 tollfree or *5555 on a cellphone.

 

Contact:

Fire Information Officer

Coastal Fire Centre

250 951-4209

 

Connect with the Province of B.C. at www.gov.bc.ca/connect

 

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